Rewind to 1996 and BBH’s ‘Resignation’ film for Polaroid’s ‘Live for the moment’ campaign. Showing an escape from the perils of corporate life (which BBH may have become rather more aware of since Publicis Groupe bought it.) Directed by Michel ...

When a new marketing boss comes in an agency review usually follows and Leo Burnett in the UK may have been concerned when it discovered UK CMO Gareth Helm was leaving, apparently at his behest. Mobile operator Three, when such ...

Hitherto all-conquering Facebook (with advertisers and media agencies anyway) is now like a rabbit in the headlights as the Anti-Defamation League in the US bites, sparked by Black Lives Matter. Now Verizon, which spends around $2m on Facebook and Instagram, ...

Olympus is selling off its camera division after 84 years (it now makes its money from medical equipment) but, in its pre-smartphone heyday, was a famous advertiser – via the great CDP inevitably. CDP was the expert in lining up ...

Burger King is reopening in France so here’s Burger Klean, a spoof airline safety ad from the brilliant Buzzman. Burger King and David Miami have also landed The One Show’s top creative gong for ‘Moldy Whoppoer.‘ Pretty revolting I’d say ...

Cannes Lions has been busily counting up its regional Agencies of the Decade (top award winners) and joining adam&eveDDB (European agency of the decade, below) are VMLY&R Dubai (Middle East and Africa), AlmapBBDO Sao Paulo (LatAm), Colenso BBDO Auckland (Pacific), ...

These days would a (relatively) small brand essay a two-minute commercial from the hardly bargain basement talents of BBH? Yeo Valley did in 2010, two in the fact. This epic take-off of Take That (from ‘The Churned’) follows a two-minute ...

Ogilvy is, or was, the biggest agency in WPP’s creative line-up and for WPP CEO Mark Read to achieve his promised “creative transformation” needs to be firing on all cylinders. Its new global CEO to replace long-serving John Seifert (41 ...

Cannes Lions is doing its virtual bit and one of the topics – inevitably – is black representation in the ad industry. Here’s CEO of We Are Pi Alex Bennett-Grant with a taste. Bennett-Grant reckons casting is a particular problem: ...